Zhang Dongning resigned from his position at BASF Group in Germany, sold his Volkswagen Golf car, rented his apartment on Hank Street, and gave his family's small household appliances and bedding to local students.

Then he took a plane from Frankfurt and returned to his hometown of birth without hesitation, taking two simple pieces of luggage.

Ten years ago, he also left home like this, nothing has changed, except for age, and faint gray hair on his temples.

Zhang Dongning lived in his hometown in northern Jiangsu for three days, and then took the high-speed train to Shanghai.

When he saw the Baoshan headquarters for the first time, Zhang Dongning was a little surprised.

The construction is still not complete, the restaurant is a row of makeshift board houses, piled up with decoration materials everywhere, and the freshly paved concrete floor has been built by workers to prevent people from being trampled on, and the screeching of chainsaws and the crisp thud of nail guns can be heard from time to time.

In an office that still smelled of decoration, Zhang Dongning met Luo Jia.

The water dispenser was not ready, and there was no tea, so Luo Jia directly threw him a can of Coke.

Zhang Dongning frowned, put the cola on the messy coffee table, his teeth were not good, and he never dared to drink too sweet drinks.

Luo Jia, the boss who was too young to talk, seemed to be very busy, he made several phone calls one after another, then lit a cigarette, took a deep breath, and shrugged his shoulders at Zhang Dongning.

"Actually, I didn't smoke before."

Zhang Dongning said that he understands that after completing the three major projects of optimization, optics and wireless charging, Xingchen Technology is making every effort to sprint to the display industry, which is not a secret, maybe the boss is really under pressure.

"We have learned about your situation, and we invite you back this time because we hope you will join our company's photoresist team." Luo Jia said straight to the point.

Puff~

Puff~

Zhang Dongning couldn't believe his ears, and his heart accelerated wildly.

Photoresist is the most important consumable in the semiconductor industry.

Although Zhang Dongning has the best graduation in the history of the chemistry department of the University of Hamburg, he has always been able to lead small projects at BASF.

Xingchen Technology actually asked himself to come back to make photoresist?

It's the project he's ever dreamed of!

Every year, the number of photoresists produced in China has reached an astonishing 90,000 tons, but they are all primary products, and high-end products need to be purchased from abroad, and the technology is completely blocked abroad.

An important consumable with an annual usage of more than 100,000 tons is all imported, which is also sad to say.

"Photoresist, then our company is going to enter the chip industry!" Zhang Dongning said excitedly.

Luo Jia smiled bitterly, "There are six major machines needed to manufacture chips, lithography machines, etching machines, developing machines, coating machines, injection machines, oxidation furnaces, all of which are the hearts and minds of the great powers, and among the top ten semiconductor equipment suppliers, there is a Dutch company, four American companies, and five neon companies, and these giants have formed an absolute monopoly in the industry." ”

"The kind of thing that makes chips when you don't agree only exists in novels and movies."

Zhang Dongning nodded, it is true that he is too naïve, the technical difficulty of the chip industry is by no means something that a layman can imagine, and he wants to take down this industry, which is comparable to landing on the moon.

Luo Jia paused, "However, there is no absolute in everything, in the past two years, in the field of etching machines, China's northern micro and micro have achieved breakthroughs, especially in the micro oxide, their oxide etching equipment, and through-silicon via etching equipment, the level is basically the world's first grade." ”

Zhang Dongning's eyes suddenly lit up, "I know about this matter, and it has been introduced in the Great Power Heavy Weapon!" ”

Luo Jia smiled and said, "It seems that when you were in Germany, you watched a lot of domestic programs." ”

Zhang Dongning touched his head embarrassedly, "When I was a child, my family was poor, and I was afraid of poverty, so I wanted to earn more money, and when I graduated, BASF gave me a high salary, so I stayed, in fact, I..."

Luo Jia interrupted him, "There is no need to explain, you can come back, it already says everything." ”

"We're about to go to war with the giant companies in the display industry, and I'm worried about that."

"Although we have solved the problem of LCD upstream raw materials, we may still be stuck in the middle of the industry."

"I made an estimate, the opponent is most likely to hit us is photoresist, after all, the exposure machine and lithography machine in China are huge, even if there is no way to import these two machines for a while, the domestic display industry can still hold on."

"But photoresist is different, it is a large amount of consumables that are consumed every day, and once the supply is cut off, the entire display industry will have no consumables available."

I have to say that when Luo Jia got serious, she was really infectious.

Zhang Dongning felt nervous, his expression became serious, and he even forgot that he had just walked into the door of Xingchen Technology, and he was completely in a posture of advancing and retreating with the company.

In Luo Jia's office, there are habitually placed a few whiteboards and fountain pens.

He picked up the fountain pen and quickly wrote on the whiteboard, making a list of all the giant companies that currently dominate the photoresist industry.

Photoresists are graded from low to high in six grades, from the lowest linear gels to metal oxide gels for extreme UV EUV.

And the domination of this industry is Dow Chemical, DuPont, Huntsman, Neon JSR, Shin-Etsu, Tokyo Applied Chemical, Fujifilm, Sumitomo, TOK, Mitsubishi Chemical, Asahi Kasei, Hitachi Chemical, Nippon Steel Chemical, Sun Ink, plus South Korea's Dongjin Chemical, LG Chem, Italy Morton and so on.

Although photoresist is only a small category in the semiconductor field, it has gathered such a number of industry giants, which is even more terrifying than the sum of the seven major raw materials in the upstream of LCD.

No wonder Luo Jia said that starting a business in the field of science and technology is like climbing a mountain, the higher you climb, the greater the wind and snow.

As long as Xingchen Technology continues to advance, the opponents in the future will only get stronger and stronger.

Zhang Dongning felt a lot of pressure, but fortunately, Luo Jia already had a project plan.

"Photoresists are composed of photosensitive compounds, matrix materials, and solvents, and what you need to be responsible for is a classification of photosensitive compounds, sensitizers."

Zhang Dongning was stunned, "It turns out that the company has more than one group engaged in photoresist research!" ”

Luo Jia laughed, "How is it possible, according to the way we play Xingchen Technology, as long as we focus on a project, we will immediately press all the technical strength!" ”

"This time, in addition to your sensitizer research group, there are six other chemical materials groups, the semiconductor department, and the optical department, and an expert group will also be sent to cooperate."

......

Seoul, Samsung Group Headquarters.

As October approached, more and more information was gathered into the office of President Lee Jae-yong.

And the content shown by the intelligence is enough to make the entire Samsung Group feel terrified.

After successive May, June and July storms, it seems that the Huaxia side has suddenly died down, and there has been no major action for two whole months.

Now it seems that there is no big move here, but they are holding back the big move!

"Recently, Huaxia panel manufacturers have upgraded the technology of the production line, including Corning, Xiao Xuzi, Toray, Teijin, the number of orders they received has been reduced on a large scale, and it is estimated that Huaxia has completed the localization of the display upstream." Gao Dongzhen said, "It is estimated that their next step will be to move our display division." ”

Lee Jae-yong felt his scalp tingle.

Although Samsung Group has a large family base and many industries, the most profitable is display and storage, plus pharmaceuticals.

Samsung Military has actually been quietly sold to Hanwha, Samsung Chemical was sold to Rakuten, Samsung Construction and Samsung General were suppressed by Daewoo, Samsung Heavy Industries can not compete with Daewoo Heavy Industries and Hyundai Heavy Industries, and Samsung Auto is a French Renault OEM, Shilla Hotel and Shilla Duty Free, sales are far less than Lotte Group.

If Samsung's display division is really crushed, it is equivalent to cutting off one of Samsung's legs.

"How likely is it?" Lee Jae-yong asked.

Gao Dong really felt embarrassed, "One hundred percent, the Huaxia Display Alliance has been established, obviously trying to seize the high ground in the industry, and in this industry, the biggest players are us and LG." ”

"All indications are that they are preparing for a big war, from mobile phone panels, to computer panels, all the way to large TV panels, all display-related fields."

Lee Jae-yong was shocked, "Also in the field of personal computers? ”

Gao Dongzhen nodded, "Xiaomi and Huawei already have their own computer product lines, and Vivo acquired Shenzhou last week, and according to the latest news, Opal will also acquire Tsinghua Tongfang in the near future." ”